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10-

10- prefix: indicates a ten-code.

Prefix

10-

  1. Indicates a ten-code.

Origin of 10-

The syllable "ten" was originally chosen to help novice operators fill an appropriate amount of time so that the dynamotor used to power 1930s and 1940s radio transmitters could spin up to full power before the semantically meaningful second number was transmitted.

Questions about 10-

What does 10- mean?
10- means indicates a ten-code.
What part of speech is 10-?
10- is a prefix.

Words near 10- in the dictionary

  1. 1/Sgts.
  2. 10
  3. 10 Downing Street
  4. 10 points to Gryffindor
  5. 10's
  6. 10-
  7. 10-20
  8. 10-20-Life
  9. 10-20s
  10. 10-4
  11. 10-bagger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 10- (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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